Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani found Beyonce’s use of the Super Bowl stage Sunday night to denigrate police officers “outrageous.”

As reported by Western Journalism, the singer performed her newly released song Formation during the half-time show, which featured her in an outfit with an “X” on it. Beyonce and her backup dancers also formed an “X” during their performance as a tribute to Malcolm X, the 1960s Muslim black rights leader.

Additionally, the back up dancers wore berets reminiscent of the Black Panthers, and some posed for a picture before the program with their right arm held up and hand clenched in a fist, as a tribute to the Black Power movement.

Driving home the message of Formation, Beyonce released a music video for the song the day before the Super Bowl. The video opens with her on top of a flooded New Orleans police car and later includes police officers in a riot line holding their hands up as a young, hooded African American boy does the same.

The latter is a clear reference to the Ferguson protesters’ cry of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” which federal and state investigators determined to be a false narrative about the Michael Brown shooting.

The words “Stop shooting us” spray painted on a wall next appears. The video ends with Beyonce being completely submerged along with the New Orleans police car.

Rudy Giuliani told the hosts of Fox and Friends on Monday, “I thought it was really outrageous that she used [the Super Bowl] as a platform to attack police officers, who are the people who protect her and protect us,” adding, “What we should be doing in the African-American community and all communities is build up respect for police officers.”

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The former mayor, who is known not only for his leadership on 9/11, but for bringing violent crime down radically in New York City during the 90’s, stated that he believes the vast majority of police officers are honorable people who seek to do the right thing.

Giuliani observed that the Super Bowl is “football and not Hollywood,” so the NFL would do well to remember its audience. “You’re talking to middle America when you have the Super Bowl,” he said. “So if you’re going to have entertainment, let’s have decent, wholesome entertainment, and not use it as a platform to attack the people who put their lives at risk to save us.”